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Bourbon County · Prehistoric · 1776 – 1790

Paris from Hopewell

Joseph Houston's 1776 station sat near Doyle Spring.

Portrait of James Garrard
James Garrard Chester Harding · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

Lawrence Protzman later platted 250 acres and in 1789 got Virginia to charter the town as Hopewell (for his New Jersey hometown) as Bourbon County's seat. In 1790 James Garrard and locals renamed it Paris to match the county, itself named for France's Bourbon kings who backed the Revolution. The post office briefly ran as Bourbonton before Paris stuck.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Paris from Hopewell." Kentucky History Drive. Published September 12, 2026. Last revised September 15, 2026. https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/paris-from-hopewell/.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Paris from Hopewell." Kentucky History Drive, published 12 Sept. 2026, last revised 15 Sept. 2026, https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/paris-from-hopewell/.

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